Children at Work: Exposing Child Labor in the Cotton Mills In this lesson, students will learn about the use of child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They will learn what life was like for a child worker: how much the workers made, how many hours they worked each day, what their homes were like and what they did for fun. Students will then write an investigative news report exposing the practice of child labor in the mills, using quotations from oral histories with former child mill workers and pAuthor(s): No creator set

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The Panda's Thumb The Panda's Thumb is a website developed by the University of Ediacara, an advocate of evolution and geologic time. The site contains polls, recent discussions and comments regarding evolutionary theory, archives, evolution resources, state science groups and science and evolution websites. This provides a forum for users to discuss evolutionary theory, critique claims of anti-evolution movements, and defend the integrity of science and science education.Author(s): Creator not set

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The Snowball Earth This website contains an informational paper by Paul Hoffman and Daniel Schragg at Harvard University. The paper describes many lines of evidence supporting a theory that the entire Earth was ice-covered 600-700 million years ago. Each glacial period lasted for millions of years and ended violently under extreme greenhouse conditions. These climate shocks triggered the evolution of multicellular animal life, and challenge long-held assumptions regarding the limits of global change. Users can reaAuthor(s): Daniel Schrag,Paul Hoffman

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Creative Typography Exploration and experimentation with letter forms and page layout for expressive communication. Fundamental typographic principles, font recognition, and analysis of both historical and post modern design theory. Emphasis on content, form, and technique for effective use of typography in ads, posters, newsletters and other visual communications.Author(s): No creator set

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Musicianship II Intermediate ear training for both the major and non-major, this Musicianship course is strongly recommended for students enrolled in theory classes. It provides an aural foundation to the theory presented in those classes. This musicianship course is typically paired up with a music theory course. Study materials on counterpoint are provided under Resources for your review. They offer an introduction to the modal counterpoint principles that guided composers during the medieval and renaissance Author(s): No creator set

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What's in a title: understanding meanings in community care What do we mean by ‘community’, ‘care’ and ‘welfare’? In this unit you will explore the meanings of these words in their historical and cultural settings. The unit does not discuss these terms exclusively in terms of social work practice so service users, carers or anyone interested in community care ...Author(s): The Open University

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Mental health practice: Bonnyrigg Although society's attitude toward mental illness has improved, discrimination and misconceptions surrounding those affected are still prevalent. This unit explores a number of issues relating to mental health practice, including the difference between meAuthor(s): Creator not set

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Unit 2 - Participatory facilitation for household food security Unit 2 is dedicated to the facilitation process and skills to help you facilitate HFS projects well. In this unit we will look at participatory and facilitation techniques in relation to Household Food Security. We will examine he background and history of community development and the difference between the approaches that developed. We will describe the community development approach we will be using for the Household Food Security Programme with its content modules based on household food seAuthor(s): Ms Thembi Ngcobo

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Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams Learning Guide This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a how to manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the school management team. Therefore, included in the toolkit component are realistic exemplars, check lists, and aAuthor(s): Maryla Bialobrzeska, Christina Randell, Liora Hell

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Creating a Caring School: Learning Guide Introduction This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a how to manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the school management team. Therefore, included in the toolkit component are realistic exemplars, check lists, and aAuthor(s): Maryla Bialobrzeska, Christina Randell, Liora Hell

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Creating a Caring School: Toolkit This resource is comprised of two companion components, the guide and the toolkit. The guide is intended to assist school leadership and management to understand why and how a particular strategy, method, or idea is useful, and not to be just a how to manual of tips. Yet the resource as a whole is at the same time intended to be relevant at all times to the context and practice of the school management team. Therefore, included in the toolkit component are realistic exemplars, check lists, and aAuthor(s): Maryla Bialobrzeska, Christina Randell, Liora Hell

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Implementation guidelines: ACE School Management and Leadership (Word) This manual provides an overview of the design and expected delivery of the new programme. The key focus of the ACE (School Management and Leadership) programme is to facilitate real transformation in schools that is grounded in recognition of the challenges of particular contexts and the values underpinning the South African Constitution. Principals and would-be principals must understand that it is not acceptable simply to pay lip service to the ideas presented in the programme, to develop polAuthor(s): Department of Education

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Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley This Honors Program first-year political theory seminar explores the intellectual relationship of Mary Shelley, the author of the novel Frankenstein, to her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of the first book on women's rights, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.Author(s): No creator set

FUSE-MOLA: Mars Once Had Oceans This visualization shows how Mars might look with an ocean at -500m where the lowest point on Mars is about -8000m and the highest point is about 22000m. Data from The FUSE spacecraft and from the Mars Global Surveyor-MOLA instrument where used to support this theory.Author(s): Greg Shirah,Vladimir Krasnopolsky,Paul Feldman

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How to Make Introductions in Icelandic Language Learn some basic introductions in Icelandic. These phrases include introducing yourself, a friend, or family members. Along with the pronunciation view the words on screen and practice along. Run time 01:01.Author(s): No creator set

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Closeup of Solar Tadpoles with time tags Here is a close-up view of dark tentacles or tadpoles moving towards the solar surface in this solar flare of April 21, 2002 seen by TRACE. One theory proposed in this press release is that they are due to voids created by magnetic reconnection in the flare. This version of the visualization displays ...Author(s): Tom Bridgman,Edward DeLuca,David McKenzie,Fenwick

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Closeup of Solar Tadpoles without time tags Here is a close-up view of dark tentacles or tadpoles moving towards the solar surface in this solar flare of April 21, 2002 seen by TRACE. One theory proposed in this press release is that they are due to voids created by magnetic reconnection in the flare. This version of the visualization does not ...Author(s): Tom Bridgman,Edward DeLuca,David McKenzie,Fenwick

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The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences is an international forum bringing together researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners interested in applying dynamical systems theory, far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics, self-organization, neural nets, fractals cellular automata, and related ...Author(s): Creator not set